Socket-wrench



Q. BI YAPLE.

SOCKET WRENCH. APPLICATION FILED IAN. a, 1920.

1,372, 113. y I Patented IIIar. 22, 1921.

. @Howl m QUINCY BATES YAPLE, 0F ARLINGTON, KANSAS.

Soenar-WRENCH.

` Specification of Letters lPatent.`

Patented Mar. 22, 1921.

Application mea January a, 1920. serial` No, 349,321.

To all w hom it may Vconcern Be it known that I, QUINGY B. YAPLE., acitizen of the United States, residing at Arlington, in the county ofReno and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Socket-Wrenches, oftwhich the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to certainnew and useful improvements in socketwrenches and designed primarily for use in tightening, loosening andremoving nuts which bind or clamp elements employed in automobile engineconstructions, more particularly nuts not accessible to the ordinarytype of wrench and for other purposes wherein the wrench .is foundapplicable, and the invention has for its object to provide, in a manneras hereinafter set forth, a wrench which is sim le in its constructionand arrangement. C a

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` wrench comprises a strong, durable, efficient and convenient in itsuse and inexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, this invention consists ofthe novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts ashereinafter set forth and more specically described and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings wherein is shown an embodiment of theinvention, but it is to be understood that changes, variations andmodifications can be resorted to as come within the scope of the claimshereunto appended.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a vertical section taken through my wrench,and Fig. 2 is a section taken on drawings in detail, the body portion 1which is elongated and has a longitudinal bore for receiving the shaft11. An integral arm 2 extending below and parallel to the body 1 isprovided with a sleeve 3 which has a bore extending at right angles tothe bore provided in the body 1.

A air of arms 4 extend from the other end of the body 1 at right anglesthereto and terminate in the arms 17 which extend par allel to thebody 1. The arms 17 terminate in the sleeve 5 and a pocket 6 forreceiving the shaft 7 which carries the socket 8.

A beveled gear 9 is fixedly mounted upon the shaft 7 and situatedadjacent the lower end of the sleeve 5 and meshes with a beveled gear 10mounted upon the shaft 11. Upon the other end of the shaft 11 is mountedthe beveled gear 12 which meshes with a beveled Referring to the gear 13carried by a shaft 1/1 extending through the sleeve 3. A bell-cranklever 15 o f the usual construction is provided contiguous with theshaft 111 and has the usual handle or knob 16.

From the above description it is clear that by the rotation of the shaft14 by means of the bell-crank lever 15 that rotary motion will be givento the beveled gear 13 thereby rotating the beveled gear 12 so as to inturn give rotary movement tothe shaft 11. This shaft 11 will rotate thebeveled gear 10 which is meshed with the beveled gear 9 thereby causingthe shaft 7 to rotate for revolving the socket 8.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device ofthe class described, the combination of a body provided with alongitudinal bore, a shaft mounted within said body, one end of saidbody provided with a depending arm terminating in a right angularextension running parallel with said body, a sleeve provided upon saidarm, said sleeve extending at right angles to the bore of said body, apair of arms offset from the other end of said body and ex tendingparallel thereto, one of said arms provided with a sleeve having a boreextending at right angles with the bore in said body and the other armprovided with a pocket, a shaft having beveled gears at each end mountedwithin the longitudinal bore of said body, a shaft having a socket onone end and a beveled gear adapted to mesh with one of the beveled gearsof the shaft extending through the bore of said body, said socket shaftadapted to pass through the sleeve provided in one of the pair of saidarms at the end of the last mentioned shaft, swiveled in the pocketprovided'in the other arm of the said shaft, an operating shaft having abeveled gear adapted to mesh with the beveled gear provided upon theshaft provided in the body portion extending through the sleeve providedin the first mentioned arm, and means provided for operating the lastmentioned shaft.

2. A device of the class described comprising a body portion, a shaftrotatably extending therethrough and having gears upon each end, a pairof arms extending from said body portion, one of said arms terminatingin a sleeve and the other arm terminating in a pocket, a shaft extendingthrough said shaft and means tioned shaft for rotating same.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

QUINCY BATES YAPLE.

lVitnesses:

R. M. TAYLOR, I. S. TREMBLEY.

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